If you use noip.com (or any other dynamic dns service) and want to step up you game by hosting your custom domain using it. noip will suggest that you take it Noip plus managed DNS service, which is pretty expensive for home user point of view, it might be of some use if you are a corporate, but then if your are, dynamic DNS would be last thing you want to use to host your product/site. You would be better of using a static ip, or use cloud services. Hence the the charges noip is asking for managed DNS seems just too high.
But if you take it, it simply (over simplification) means, when you will type:
www.mydomain.com (example) --> Goes to domain provider --> which direct to no-ip dns (you have to put that your domain registrar page) --> which map it to your dynamic ip.
and for that you have to pay $35/year to noip. I am not saying that you should not pay at all to them, after all they are providing a fantastic service. I personally use noip enhanced, which allow me to have 50 hosts (and better domain names, than free one), but for home/small scale user that the extant up to which noip make sense, before you graduate to static ip or cloud, but none the less, below trick will work with free account also.
"So the simple way to host custom domain with dynamic dns is just to update the cname record, in your domain registrar page."
Every domain registrar has this feature, here is link to instruction for godaddy. Or you can ask your domain registrar for modifying/adding this record.
Now what will happen that:
when you add cname record --> www.mynoip.ddns.net (noip free domain) against www.mydomain.com (your registered domain)
www.mydomain.com will redirect to www.mynoip.ddns.net
The best part of this technique is that your type in url will mask the redirected url, so if user types www.mydomain.com --> they will get redirected internally to www.mynoip.ddns.net, but they won't feel the difference, the browser will keep the typed in name www.mydomain.com in the url. Neat!
and all that for free.
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